Hololena curta

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| taxon = Hololena curta

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• Agelena curta McCook, 1894

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Hololena curta, commonly known as corner funnel weaver or funnel web spider, is a species of venomous spiders belonging to a family of Agelenidae.

It is native to Canada and the United States.{{citation |title=Taxon details Hololena curta (McCook, 1894) |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/727 |access-date=2023-07-15 }}

This species and related species produce a venom that contains a group of insecticidal acylpolyamines, insecticidal peptide,{{cite journal |vauthors=Quistad GB, Reuter CC, Skinner WS, Dennis PA, Suwanrumpha S, Fu EW |year= 1991 |title= Paralytic and insecticidal toxins from the funnel web spider, Hololena curta |journal= Toxicon |volume=29 |issue= 3 | pages= 329–336 |pmid= 2048147 |doi=10.1016/0041-0101(91)90286-z}} and a group of neurotoxins.{{cite journal |vauthors=Stapleton A, Blankenship DT, Ackermann BL, Chen TM, Gorder GW, Manley GD, Palfreyman MG, Coutant JE, Cardin AD |year= 1990 |title= Curtatoxins. Neurotoxic insecticidal polypeptides isolated from the funnel-web spider Hololena curta |journal= J Biol Chem |volume=265 |issue=4 | pages= 2054–2059 |pmid= 2298738}}

Males have adapted to avoid sexual cannibalism by mating with virgin females, as both females and males can mate multiple times, but females become aggressive after having mated.{{cite journal |last1=Xiao |first1=Yong-Hong |last2=Zunic-Kosi |first2=Alenka |last3=Zhang |first3=Long-Wa |last4=Prentice |first4=Thomas R. |last5=McElfresh |first5=J. Steven |last6=Chinta |first6=Satya P. |last7=Zou |first7=Yun-Fan |last8=Millar |first8=Jocelyn G. |title=Male adaptations to minimize sexual cannibalism during reproduction in the funnel-web spider Hololena curta: Male spiders avoiding sexual cannibalism |journal=Insect Science |date=December 2015 |volume=22 |issue=6 |pages=840–852 |doi=10.1111/1744-7917.12243}}